\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

Kooky fact about the Aztecs

Every year the Aztecs performed thousands of human sacrifice...
razzmatazz bbw
  02/01/18
(biglaw associate "volunteering" for "emergen...
very tactful gay dopamine
  02/01/18
underrated
Doobsian Judgmental Mad Cow Disease Office
  02/01/18
...
exhilarant high-end area
  02/03/18
...
wonderful green sneaky criminal nursing home
  02/03/18
...
Thriller arrogant chapel
  02/03/18
...
Fighting embarrassed to the bone dog poop
  02/11/18
...
Effete turquoise piazza athletic conference
  02/11/18
...
self-centered supple national security agency ticket booth
  11/25/19
...
crawly parlour legend
  12/07/19
...
Post nut horror
  02/21/26
damn, thats brutal.
Heady drunken library dingle berry
  02/01/18
I'm guessing most of them, like ISIS, were lied to about the...
Anal burgundy liquid oxygen state
  02/01/18
If you've ever looked at how Aztecs built and decorated thei...
razzmatazz bbw
  02/01/18
...
Massive black woman dilemma
  02/01/18
Fortuitous Aztec abduction
Arousing sable genital piercing newt
  02/01/18
There was one sacrifice where a volunteer was treated like a...
galvanic whorehouse rigor
  02/01/18
Yeah that was the best. He was basically the biggest celebri...
razzmatazz bbw
  02/01/18
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/295ha6/what_...
galvanic whorehouse rigor
  02/01/18
sounds very kooky -- analogous to how we expect our rock sta...
Domesticated love of her life
  02/01/18
holy shit
Massive black woman dilemma
  02/03/18
Key attribute of the guy they were looking for "he was ...
crawly parlour legend
  02/03/18
Brb vomiting
vivacious hospital half-breed
  02/11/18
What the fuck
Fighting embarrassed to the bone dog poop
  05/05/18
female captives willingly dancing for their aztec chad capto...
crimson aphrodisiac filthpig
  02/01/18
Xipe Totec Xipe Totec, known as "Our Lord the Flayed O...
Twisted coldplay fan double fault
  02/01/18
xipe totec death rituals were really varied from what I reme...
Dun cuck circlehead
  02/03/18
Pic of xipe totec figure wearing the dead skin mask of a fla...
Cerise range
  02/11/18
The conquistadors Cortés and Alvarado found that some...
Tripping 180 senate
  02/03/18
180
aquamarine principal's office
  02/11/18
...
razzmatazz bbw
  11/25/19
the losing sports team was killt
submissive honey-headed striped hyena ceo
  02/03/18
Winning sports team
rose jewess base
  11/25/19
Depended on who you won against. Some games were purely comp...
razzmatazz bbw
  12/07/19
wow, that's fucked up
Chestnut school cafeteria milk
  02/03/18
We need more of them here.
magenta beady-eyed hominid gaming laptop
  02/03/18
...
Idiotic dysfunction center
  12/07/19
When you're that kind of primitive and your side gets its sh...
Topaz dragon locale
  02/11/18
Apparently their concept of the afterlife depended on how yo...
razzmatazz bbw
  02/11/18
Did their society disappear because they paid repatriations ...
dashing pink famous landscape painting windowlicker
  02/11/18
...
razzmatazz bbw
  05/05/18
...
razzmatazz bbw
  11/25/19
...
Marvelous Digit Ratio
  11/25/19
"We" don't "know" any of this. At best, ...
blue sadistic theater stage corn cake
  11/25/19
As I stated above, Aztecs believed certain forms of death gu...
razzmatazz bbw
  12/07/19
Tranquillo Juan
Doobsian Judgmental Mad Cow Disease Office
  12/07/19
...
Up-to-no-good Mildly Autistic Idiot
  12/07/19
Not true, unless you don't believe the accounts of the conqu...
Ultramarine Gas Station Incel
  12/07/19
Spanish saw this with their own eyes. The skull towers are v...
Vigorous Menage Factory Reset Button
  12/07/19
Jaws is impossible to kill in the Aztec level iirc
bronze swollen clown
  12/07/19
...
Flushed House-broken Puppy Address
  02/19/20
...
Dun cuck circlehead
  09/18/22
Implemented the first compulsory public education institutio...
contagious church sound barrier
  09/18/22
It's very unlikely it was the first. I think anyone trying t...
Dun cuck circlehead
  09/18/22


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:14 PM
Author: razzmatazz bbw

Every year the Aztecs performed thousands of human sacrifices, and many sacrificial victims were prisoners who had been captured from neighboring tribes. Ordinarily you would expect a POW to resist being sacrificed, but it turns out that many Aztec sacrificial victims were required to perform special dances, lead chants, and perform other public spectacles. So prisoners who we sacrificed according to these rituals must have done so at least somewhat voluntarily. Also they must have either received instruction or have already known how to perform the required rituals.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298386)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:24 PM
Author: very tactful gay dopamine

(biglaw associate "volunteering" for "emergency" research project at 8:45 p.m. on a Friday evening)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298463)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:40 PM
Author: Doobsian Judgmental Mad Cow Disease Office

underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298576)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:49 PM
Author: exhilarant high-end area



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35314177)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:55 PM
Author: wonderful green sneaky criminal nursing home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35314212)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:20 PM
Author: Thriller arrogant chapel



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35314644)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 11th, 2018 1:40 AM
Author: Fighting embarrassed to the bone dog poop



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35375102)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 11th, 2018 8:00 AM
Author: Effete turquoise piazza athletic conference



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35375622)



Reply Favorite

Date: November 25th, 2019 2:26 PM
Author: self-centered supple national security agency ticket booth



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39170301)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 7th, 2019 10:04 PM
Author: crawly parlour legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39231219)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 21st, 2026 3:29 PM
Author: Post nut horror



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#49685335)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:15 PM
Author: Heady drunken library dingle berry

damn, thats brutal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298394)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:16 PM
Author: Anal burgundy liquid oxygen state

I'm guessing most of them, like ISIS, were lied to about their fate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298397)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:19 PM
Author: razzmatazz bbw

If you've ever looked at how Aztecs built and decorated their cities it would have been pretty fucking clear what was happening.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298439)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:20 PM
Author: Massive black woman dilemma



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298443)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:17 PM
Author: Arousing sable genital piercing newt

Fortuitous Aztec abduction

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298417)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:19 PM
Author: galvanic whorehouse rigor

There was one sacrifice where a volunteer was treated like a god for one year, given four beautiful women as companions, and afterwards sacrificed to Tezcatlipoca

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298438)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:21 PM
Author: razzmatazz bbw

Yeah that was the best. He was basically the biggest celebrity in the empire for that year. His sacrifice involved climbing the temple steps, having his heart removed, having his skin flayed, and the NEXT dood who would play that role for the next year would wear his skin.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298450)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:23 PM
Author: galvanic whorehouse rigor

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/295ha6/what_was_life_like_for_tezcatlipocas_ixiptla/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298459)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:47 PM
Author: Domesticated love of her life

sounds very kooky -- analogous to how we expect our rock stars today to be kanye-level cray cray for a year and then flame out in a massive OD/car accident, with the gory video broadcast into every home

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298616)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:25 PM
Author: Massive black woman dilemma

holy shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35314669)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: crawly parlour legend

Key attribute of the guy they were looking for "he was not bald"

They also made their enemies eat their own hands which a lot of the cartels do today because they think they're carrying on some aztec warrior tradition

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35314711)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 11th, 2018 8:19 AM
Author: vivacious hospital half-breed

Brb vomiting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35375637)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 5th, 2018 4:07 AM
Author: Fighting embarrassed to the bone dog poop

What the fuck

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35985838)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:20 PM
Author: crimson aphrodisiac filthpig

female captives willingly dancing for their aztec chad captors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298440)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 1st, 2018 5:33 PM
Author: Twisted coldplay fan double fault

Xipe Totec

Xipe Totec, known as "Our Lord the Flayed One," is the god of rebirth, agriculture, the seasons, and craftsmen.[34]

Xipe Totec was worshipped extensively during the festival of Tlacaxipehualiztli, in which captured warriors and slaves were sacrificed in the ceremonial center of the city of Tenochtitlan. For forty days prior to their sacrifice one victim would be chosen from each ward of the city to act as ixiptla, dress and live as Xipe Totec. The victims were then taken to the Xipe Totec's temple where their hearts would be removed, their body dismembered and their body parts divided up to be later eaten. Prior to their death and dismemberment the victims skin would be removed, and worn by individuals who traveled throughout the city fighting battles and collecting gifts from the citizens. [35]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35298521)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:46 PM
Author: Dun cuck circlehead

xipe totec death rituals were really varied from what I remember. There were many different ways you could get pwned.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35314156)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 11th, 2018 1:27 AM
Author: Cerise range

Pic of xipe totec figure wearing the dead skin mask of a flayed victim.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/49393687@N05/28309241999/in/datetaken-public/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35375045)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2018 2:54 PM
Author: Tripping 180 senate

The conquistadors Cortés and Alvarado found that some of the sacrificial victims they freed “indignantly rejected [the] offer of release and demanded to be sacrificed.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35314204)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 11th, 2018 1:42 AM
Author: aquamarine principal's office

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35375110)



Reply Favorite

Date: November 25th, 2019 2:26 PM
Author: razzmatazz bbw



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39170300)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2018 3:26 PM
Author: submissive honey-headed striped hyena ceo

the losing sports team was killt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35314394)



Reply Favorite

Date: November 25th, 2019 2:35 PM
Author: rose jewess base

Winning sports team

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39170331)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 7th, 2019 10:03 PM
Author: razzmatazz bbw

Depended on who you won against. Some games were purely competitive, but others were ceremonial and the flow of the game was supposed to reflect the movement of the sun. If you fucked that up then yeah, you were probably going to die.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39231209)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:26 PM
Author: Chestnut school cafeteria milk

wow, that's fucked up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35314677)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 3rd, 2018 4:34 PM
Author: magenta beady-eyed hominid gaming laptop

We need more of them here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35314731)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 7th, 2019 10:33 PM
Author: Idiotic dysfunction center



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39231410)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 11th, 2018 7:54 AM
Author: Topaz dragon locale

When you're that kind of primitive and your side gets its shit pushed in, you figure the gods favored your enemy and you rationally take the side of those gods

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35375610)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 11th, 2018 11:13 PM
Author: razzmatazz bbw

Apparently their concept of the afterlife depended on how you died. If you died of natural causes/old age, you had to undergo a series of extremely grueling trials in order to have a good afterlife. But if you died in battle or as a sacrificial victim, you went direct to the front of the line.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35381241)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 11th, 2018 9:42 AM
Author: dashing pink famous landscape painting windowlicker

Did their society disappear because they paid repatriations to their slaves?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35375886)



Reply Favorite

Date: May 5th, 2018 2:42 AM
Author: razzmatazz bbw



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#35985728)



Reply Favorite

Date: November 25th, 2019 2:21 PM
Author: razzmatazz bbw



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39170278)



Reply Favorite

Date: November 25th, 2019 2:24 PM
Author: Marvelous Digit Ratio



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39170291)



Reply Favorite

Date: November 25th, 2019 2:35 PM
Author: blue sadistic theater stage corn cake

"We" don't "know" any of this. At best, some archaeologists looked at carvings of hunters and jaguars and stars and stuff and said "ah yes they are describing the ancient ritual of tixtuopec in which they believed the jaguar was the pathway to the heavens if the hunters consume them."

Imagine if some future archeologist went into a cathedral and looked at the stained glass windows of Daniel in the Lion's Den and wrote a bunch of faggy internet articles about our kooky tradition of sacrificing the bravest warrior to lions every year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39170333)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 7th, 2019 10:07 PM
Author: razzmatazz bbw

As I stated above, Aztecs believed certain forms of death guaranteed an easy passage into the afterlife. Ritual sacrifice bring one of them, dying in battle was another. The worst thing that could happen to you was to lose a battle but NOT die, and then live on to old age. There was a lot of cross-polinization among prehistoric mexican tribes and a lot of them ended up worshipping variants of the same God, so it's entirely conceivable that they would have shared the Aztecs' beliefs about this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39231237)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 7th, 2019 10:41 PM
Author: Doobsian Judgmental Mad Cow Disease Office

Tranquillo Juan

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39231441)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 7th, 2019 10:51 PM
Author: Up-to-no-good Mildly Autistic Idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39231477)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 7th, 2019 10:53 PM
Author: Ultramarine Gas Station Incel

Not true, unless you don't believe the accounts of the conquistadors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39231485)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 7th, 2019 11:20 PM
Author: Vigorous Menage Factory Reset Button

Spanish saw this with their own eyes. The skull towers are verified.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39231556)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 7th, 2019 10:56 PM
Author: bronze swollen clown

Jaws is impossible to kill in the Aztec level iirc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39231493)



Reply Favorite

Date: February 19th, 2020 11:09 PM
Author: Flushed House-broken Puppy Address



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#39622079)



Reply Favorite

Date: September 18th, 2022 2:56 PM
Author: Dun cuck circlehead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#45191102)



Reply Favorite

Date: September 18th, 2022 3:03 PM
Author: contagious church sound barrier

Implemented the first compulsory public education institutions ever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#45191122)



Reply Favorite

Date: September 18th, 2022 3:05 PM
Author: Dun cuck circlehead

It's very unlikely it was the first. I think anyone trying to reverse engineer Teotihuacan would conclude that they likely had some kind of compulsory education. Also the Aztecs themselves did not become scholarly until they settled on the lake. Prior to that time they were nomads the other mexican civs like the Zapotecs looked down on. Aztecs had to work to earn the respect of these other tribes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3879013&forum_id=2",#45191129)